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September 21, 2015

The Boston Globe

Nachtwey focuses on war and its consequences
By Mark Feeney

MANCHESTER, N.H. — War photography began not long after photography did, with Roger Fenton during the Crimean War. From the beginning, photographing war has posed a double challenge. Can such grim subject matter qualify as art? Even more daunting, at what point does documentation become exploitation? Robert Capa famously said, "If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough." Morally, can a war photographer get too close? ...